Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-06
THE TEMPEST.
Christ Shilling the Storm on Lake
GaIIee Described by the Great
Brooklyn Divine.
Tbe Importance of Having a Savior
Always With Us That We Can Call
on Him in Time OF Danger.
uave No Right to Engage in Any En-
terprise without First Having
Chrigt on Our Side.
s-seIaI to the Gazette.

= Dewitt TaImage, D, D., preached in
me Tabernacle this morning, a sermon
ortf+led: "The Tempest" Service be-
can with the exposition Of appropriate
Messages of Scripture, after which the
grest congregation sang the hymn;
Heaven is my fatherland,
Heaven is my home.
The text was Mark 4: 1888, describing
Christ sitting the tempest. He said:
Tiberias, Galilee, Gennesaret-three
names Tor the same lake. No other gem
ever mad so beautiful a setting, 1t lay in
scene OF great luXuriance: the sur
~oundIng hills high, terraCed, sloped,
Urored, so many hanging gardens OF
5esuty, the waters rumbling down be-
tween the rocks of gray and red lime
stone, flashing from the hills and bounding
INFO tbe sea. On the shore were castles.
armed towers, Roman baths, Everything
attractive and beautiful; all styles of
vegetation in shorter space than in almost
any other space in sill the world, from
the palm tree of the forest to the trees of
rigorous climate.
It seemed as if the Lord had launched
one wave of beauty On all the scene, and
# hung and swung from rock and hill and
0Iesnder. Roman gentlemen in pleasure
hosts sailing the lake, and fsh-smacks
coming down to drop their nets, pass
esca other with nod and shout and laugh
Ter, OF swinging idly at their moorings.
Oh, what wonderful, what q beautiful
lake.
Il seems as if we shall have q quiet
night Not leaf winked in the air.
NOT A RIPPLE DISTURBED
the face Of Gennessret; but there seems
To- d little excitement up the beach, and
we hasten TO see what it is, and we find
It 81 embgTkatiOn.
From the western shore fotills push
ing out; not g squadron, or deadly arme-
meut, nor clipper with valuable merchsn-
disc, nor pirate vessels ready to destroy
everything they could seize; but totilla,
bearing messengers of life, and
light, and peace. Christ is il the front
Of the bOat. His disciples are in g
smaller boat. Jesus, weary with much
Speaking to large multitudes, is put
into sOmnolence by the rocking of the
waves. If there was any motion at all
the snip was easily righted; if the wind
passed from starboard to larboard, or
from larbORrd to starbOard, the boat
NHA4At ADSAI fhA4Nt W VIZ CLAbASAlSsSS VI I4AS
notion putting the Master asleep. And
they eXtemporized & pillow made out OF
lsherman's coat. l think NO sooner il
Christ PROSTATE, and his head touched
me pillow, than ne IS sound asleep. The
breez-s of the lakes run their fingers
l4rOugh the locks of the worn sleeper,
sud the boat rises and falls like 2 sleep
!ag child on the bosom of q sleeping
mother.
Calm night, starry night, beautiful
night. Run up ali the sails, ply all the
Osrs, and let the large boat and the
small boat glide over gentle Gennesaret.
But the sailors say there is going to be q
Clauge Of weather. And even the pas
Sengers can hear the moaning of the
storm as it comes on with great stride,
and ell the terrors of hurricane and dark
ness. The large boat trembles like g
deer st bay among the Clangor of the
hounds great patches of foam are flung
into the air: the sails Of the vessel loosen
and the sharp winds
CRACK LIKE PISTOLS;
The small er boats like petrels poise on
me cliff of the waves and then plunge.
Overheard 60 cargo, taCkling and
m1stS, and the drenChed disciples rush
into the back part of the boat, and lay
hold Of Christ, and say unto Him: "Mas-
ter, CaTeSt Thou not that we periSh?"
That great parsonage lifts His head from
tls pillow Of the hsherman's coat, walks
10 the front of the vessel and looks out
into the storm. All around Him are the
smaller boats, driven in the tempest, and
through it comes the cry of drowning
men. By the flash of the lightning l see
the calm brow of Christ "a the spray
dropped from His beard. He has one
word for the sky and another for the
waves. Looking upward He cries:
Peace" Looking downward He says:
BE still"
The waves fall fiat on their faces, the
foam melts, the extinguished stars re-
light their torches. The tempest falls
dead, and Christ stands with his feet on
the neck of the storm. And while the
sailors are baIllng out the boats, and
while they are trying to untangle the
c0rdage, the disciples stand in amaze
ment, now looking into the calm sea,
then into the calm sky, then into the
calm SaviOr's countenanCe, and they Cry
out: "What manner of man is this, that
even the winds and the ses obey Him?'
The subject in the first place impresses
NE with the fact that it is very important
10 have Christ with the ship; for all those
90sts would have gone to the bottom of
Gernesaret if Christ had not been pres
ent. Oh, what q lesson for you and for
NE TO learn, We must always have Christ
In the ship. Whstever voyage we under
take, into whatever enterprise we start,
let us always have Christ in the ship.
Many Of you in these days OF revived
commerce are starting out in new tinau-
Cial enterprises. bid you good cheer,
DO all you can do. Do it on as high
plane as possible, You have no right TO
be Z stoker of the ship if you can be an
admiral OF the navy. You have no right
70 be g colonel of the regiment
IL YOU CAN
command g brigade; you have no
right to be engineer of . boat on river
bank or near the coast 4 you can take the
ocean steamer from New York to Liver
pool. All you can do with utmost ten
sion of body, mind ana soul, you are
bound to do; but OH have Christ IN
every enterprise, Christ in every voyage,
Christ in every ship.
There are men here who ask God to
help them st the start of great enter
prises He has been with them II the
past; no trouble can overthrow them;
the storms might come down from the
top of Mount Rermon and lash Gennes-